After years and years of hoping, wishing, prepping our cut-off jean shorts and blueing ourselves, it finally looks like an “Arrested Development” movie is going to happen, and there’s an added bonus: creator Mitch Hurwitz and the cast confirmed over the weekend that there will also be a new nine or ten episode season before the movies’ release.

Now that the agony is over, let’s take a look back at the ups and downs of “AD” movie news over the years — and believe us, there’ve been a lot of them.

» While promoting “Youth in Revolt” back in December 2009, Cera told MTV he hoped to shoot the movie sometime in the next year. Oh, if only!

» Then Tony Hale, aka Buster Bluth, confirmed at Sundance a few weeks later that the entire cast, including Liza Minnelli, was on board and just waiting for the script.

» On the red carpet at the 2010 Oscars, Bateman said that Hurwitz and Will Arnett’s work on the doomed “Running Wilde” would push filming back a few months, but the cast was still hopeful to shoot by the year’s end.

There are still many questions to answer, but for now, it looks like Netflix and Showtime are the two biggest players in the battle for the next season of “Arrested Development,” which would set the table for the long-awaited movie. When Hurtwitz unveiled his plan at the New Yorker Festival, he said he hoped to take an unorthodox approach to the mini-series. He wants to focus on one character per episode, letting viewers know what each character has been up to since 2006.

Check back with MTV News for all the latest “Arrested Development” news as more info on the reunion comes out.